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The American composer and music critic recounts events and acquaintances from his Missouri childhood, his sojourns in Paris between the wars and his eventual rise to world fame
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TIM PAGE, editor of the two-volume Library of America Virgil Thomson edition, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his writings in the Washington Post, for which he was a music critic from 1995 to 2008. A professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern California, he is also co-editor of Virgil Thomson’s Selected Letters.
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"Every practicing and aspiring critic today should read Thomson's exhilarating writings."
--Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
--Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
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- PublisherA.A. Knopf
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 1199588962
- ISBN 13 9781199588968
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages424
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